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The Anthropology of Europe
ANTH260 SP

The course explores broad central questions both of postwar Europe and of ethnography. Readings examine how regional, national and global interests impinge on local communities as Europe unifies, what anthropology contributes to the study of Eurpope, and how European ethnography reflects the changing discipline of Anthropology. Studies will include comparative cases of religious orthodoxy, popular faith, and anticlericalism; the politics of new identities and old ethnicities; migration; transnationalism; and gender in rural and urban contexts. Relations between regions, center and periphery, and the movement of populations, commodities, and culture across shifting borders are the focus of ethnographies in Central, Southern and Eastern Europe.

MAJOR READINGS

E. Badone, RELIGIOUS ORTHODOXY and POPULAR FAITH IN EUROPEAN SOCIETY M. Herzfeld, THE POETICS OF MANHOOD S. MacDonald, INSIDE EUROPEAN IDENTITIES S. Cole, WOMEN OF THE PRAIA J. Borneman, BELONGING IN THE TWO BERLINS S. Rogers, SHAPING MODERN TIMES IN RURAL FRANCE

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Map quiz, short papers, final take-home exam.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS ANTH    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: NONE

Last Updated on MAR-24-2000

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